What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our Analytics Cookies gather information about how you use our website, e.g. which pages you visit, whether you encountered any errors, e.g. in forms. These cookies do not gather any information that can be use to identify you – all the data gathered are anonymized and serve only to optimize the functioning of our website, to know what our visitors are interested in, the efficiency of our advertising.

With their help we

Receive statistic data on how our website is used

Get data on the effectivness of our ads (We DO NOT use this data to send you our ads when you visit other websites)

Can catch errors and improve our website by fixing them

Test various concepts of our website.

If these cookies are not allowed, we can not guarantee full functionality of our website. This data may be passed to third parties when it is accoriding to law.

Google Analytics – https://www.google.com/analytics/

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Browser data stored according to browser cooking settings is not stored in our system.

Information we connect with our cookies data we store according to your consent, which you have given us or for the time of a contract between us and yourself.

How to check your Cookies settings

You can check or delete your cookies files. More details are available at aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookie files on your computer and you can change settings on most of the browser so they don’t collect cookies.

Cookies are usefull as long as the website owners do not misuse them for unauthorised data collection. If you don’t trust cokkies, you can regularly delete cookies from your computer. In some cases an incorrect input is registered leading to problems with logging in to our internet applications.

Your rights regarding your data

If you have an account on our website or if you left a comment, you can ask for an export of you data, that we collect on you, including the data you have given us. You may also ask to have the data deleted. This does not include data which we are bound to store from administrative, legal or security reasons.

Right to withdraw consent – If we process your data based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent anytime or you can use your right to object by contacting us – contact data shown below.

Right to access your data – You can ask for information regarding how we store your data, including the information why we process it, what categories of data we process, with whom we share the data, how long we store it and if it includes automated processing, whether the data has been transferred to a third country.

Right to rectification – You have a right to notify is when some of your personal data is incorrect, e.g. if you changes your name, changed your address, and we are obliged to correct the wrong data.

Right to be forgotten – If we process your data in an illegal way, e.g. for longer period than needed or without a valid reason, you may ask us to delete this data.

Right to restriction of processing – From the moment you asked for the rectification or you objected against us processing your data until the moment, when we can verify the accuracy or your data or change them according to your instructions, you have the right to restriction of processing. That means that we (with the exception of storage of personal data) can process your data only with your consent, if it’s required by law, to protect the rights of other person or if there is a important public interest. You can request to have the processing of your data restricted, if the processing is illegal, but you don’t want your data deleted.

Right to object – If you believe, that we do not have the right to process your personal data, you can object to our processing. In that case we can continue with processing only, if we can prove legal reasons that override your interests, rights and freedoms. However we can always process your data if it is necessary for setting, invoking or protecting legal claims.

Right to data portability – You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us to process explicitly with a consent or as a requirement for a contract in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit those data to another controller.

How can you lay your claim?

Office for the Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic (Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov) – If you are not satisfied with our response or you believe that we process your data illegally, you can lay your claim at the Supervisory authority, that being the Office for the Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic. More information: www.dataprotection.gov.sk.

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